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GUIDE: LOANS, GRANTS AND EQUITY FUNDING > PART SEVEN
With so many different loans available, it can be tricky to figure out which one is right for you and your business. Guidelines vary, and lenders often ask for detailed documentation. If you’re not ready, it can be frustrating.
KCSourceLink Resource Partners can make the process easy. These experts understand what loans are available and which ones fit different needs and situations. Working with a knowledgeable Resource Partner can save you serious time and energy.
Your first step is contacting KCSourceLink. OurResource Navigatorcan help you find the organizations that can help. Or you can get individualized help – for free – from ourNetwork Navigators. They’ll learn about your business and help you connect with the specific Resource Partners that will meet your needs. It’s all part of thePersonalized Action Planthat can help turn your goals into reality.
Local Loan Providers
AltCap
Founded in 2005 with a mission to provide fair access to capital, AltCap is a critical source of alternative debt financing for communities and entrepreneurs that fall outside the financial mainstream.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
Capital Access Center
The Capital Access Center (CAC), part of the Kansas Small Business Development Center (SBDC), is a consulting service to small business owners needing Capital (loans, lines of credit, etc). Due to state-specific funding for the Capital Access Center, we are only able to work with Kansas businesses.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
City of Gladstone, Missouri - Economic Development Department
The Gladstone, Missouri Economic Development Department is dedicated to improving the economic welfare of Gladstone, Missouri.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
DreamSpring
DreamSpring is a nonprofit community lender providing small business loans and lines of credit, resources and guidance.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
EDC Loan Corporation of Kansas City
EDC Loan Corporation of Kansas City, Missouri, is a nonprofit corporation specializing in the origination and underwriting of Revolving Loan Funds. Its mission is to help small business grow and expand through loan programs to attract, expand and retain jobs.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
Entrepreneurship Community Partnership
NetWork Kansas is devoted to the growth of entrepreneurship and small businesses throughout the state of Kansas. Our mission is to promote an entrepreneurial environment by providing a central portal that connects entrepreneurs and small business owners with the right resources—expertise, education and economic resources—when they are needed most.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
Frontier Financial Partners
Frontier Financial Partners helps package and provide business loans to small, independent business people across various industries.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
Heartland Business Capital
Heartland Business Capital is a Small Business Administration licensed company that provides 504 loans to businesses throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area. The 504 loan offers financing for owner-occupied real estate and heavy machinery and equipment.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
Hispanic Economic Development Corporation of Greater Kansas City
The Hispanic Economic Development Corporation (HEDC) is dedicated to improving the lives of Latinos within the greater Kansas City. HEDC achieves this through business development and economic and community wealth creation initiatives.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
Holy Rosary Credit Union
Our members are not only members of a financial institution, they are members of the HRCU family. We seek not only to provide financial services, but to empower our members to be in control of their finances. We do this by overcoming language barriers, offering opportunities for education, and creating a mutual trust between our staff and our members.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
Johnson County Missouri Economic Development Corporation (JCEDC)
The Johnson County, Missouri, Economic Development Corporation (JCEDC) provides confidential one-on-one business assistance, microloan funds, financing options and incentives for new and existing businesses, small to large, for all Johnson County, Missouri.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
Justine PETERSEN
Justine Petersen Housing and Reinvestment Corporation (Justine PETERSEN) is a Missouri not-for-profit corporation. The organization’s mission is to connect institutional resources with the needs of low-to moderate-income individuals and families, helping them to build assets and create enduring change, not just for each individual or family that we assist, but the community as a whole.
Our mission is demonstrated by our services, which include credit building and financial education, homeownership preparation and retention, and micro-enterprise lending and training.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
Leavenworth County E-Community
Leavenworth County is a NetWork Kansas E-Community, which makes a commitment to cultivate an entrepreneurial environment by identifying and developing resources to help local entrepreneurs start or grow businesses.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
LISC Greater Kansas City
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is the nation's largest Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) serving 30 cities across the country.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
M-Powerment Solutions
Anyone with less than perfect credit looking to buy a home, vehicle, or apply for a high paying career. I help people with no credit, derogatory marks, and those with decent credit looking to get a credit score of 750+.
Specializes in: Loan Providers
Midwest Small Business Finance
Midwest Small Business Finance provides small businesses with economic development and financial assistance. It also provides startup and growth capital for small businesses, including SBA 504 loans and multiple revolving fund loan programs.
Missouri Department of Agriculture
The Missouri Department of Agriculture sets agriculture policy, provides assistance to farmers throughout the state and focuses on food-related businesses.
Missouri Linked Deposit Program
The SBTDC offers confidential, one-on-one counseling, coaching and training to existing businesses and emerging business owners.
Missouri Technology Corporation
The Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC) is a public-private partnership created by the Missouri General Assembly to promote entrepreneurship and foster the growth of new and emerging high-tech companies. MTC focuses on the life sciences and technology industries, which build on Missouri’s rich history in agriculture.
Mo-Kan Regional Council
MO-KAN Development Inc. provides loan programs to small businesses in Kansas and Missouri.
RMI Business Finance
RMI is a financial resource that provides long-term, fixed-rate financing through several diverse loan products to Missouri businesses.
The Black MasterMind Group Charitable Foundation
The Black MasterMind Group Charitable Foundation is designed to create strategies to help the Black entrepreneurial community start, stabilize, sustain and scale businesses. It educates, trains, coaches, mentors, develops and provides funding initiatives
The Entrepreneur's Source
I provide no cost education, awareness and discovery services to people who are in career transition and have an interest in exploring entrepreneurship as a potential career path or adding passive streams of income to their existing investment or bus
The Toolbox: Small Business Resource Center
The Toolbox: Small Business Resource Center is the go-to resource for everything small business in Wyandotte County, Kansas. All services are offered at no cost to local residents and businesses. The Toolbox provides support with planning, registering, funding, operating and growing your business through private one-on-one small business coaching.
Wakarusa Valley Development
Wakarusa Valley Development partners with the U.S. Small Business Administration to meet the financing needs of growing small businesses throughout the state of Kansas.
GUIDE: LOANS, GRANTS AND EQUITY FUNDING
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